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What armies do you mostly play against eldartau1987?
Around here there are lots of marine armies (obviously) and then a few people who play guard,and then a scattering of the other races.
For a while orks were everywhere though. I recenty sold off my nids and my orks and am in the process of selling off my loyalists. they take up too much space and i just dont have as much time to invest in them now that chaos has taken hold.

Just thought i would post a few pics of my gaming board at home. I made it modular so its in three pieces that set on top of a folding table. I have been constructing a whole mess of WW 1 themed trench warfare terrain as well as a ruined city scape modelled after Stalingrad WW2. I made a bunch of craters, half of which have water in them. i also constructed a few complex trench lines, a block house and some movable, mounted up barbed wire entanglements.

So far i am pretty happy with the overall effect. I am going to be painting a small mural to go on my wall to act as a backdrop so that i will have smoke and flames on the horrizon when i photograph my minis for battle reports.

So, I have been working on a new project. I will be fielding a unit of 10 Plague zombies in a 1500 pt list that i am fielding this sat. I have to get the zombies all decked out. I am using bits of cadian and the zombie lines to assist in construction. I want the whole unit to represent just the dead that had arisen since the invasion of ARDUOUS began. Arduous is a world that i wrote a time line for and have been constructing as a campaign setting.
The zombies will be part of this 1500pt list.

Typhus
Warsmith with mark of nurgle
10 zombies
2x5 plague marines with power fist and melta in each squad.
Rhino
2xDefiler
2xHellbrute, one with ML
3 Terminators with Mark of Nurgle, Power fist and two combimeltas.

dude the board, is sweet! and i like your least favorite the most.

What paints, and colors did you use on that board? the dirt looks really good.

@ cormadepanda ~ Thanks dude. The board is such and an integral part of the game that having a good board is essential. That one zombie, like i said, he's not my favorite but I am glad that you appreciate his ambiance.

@ Galorn ~ I went to Home Depot and got it there. Its (I think) Chocolate Truffle color. I know for sure it had truffle in the name. I just mixed it with sand and then painted it on the board. THen i overbrushed the board with two or three colors. Burnt sienna, a leftover and drying up pot of one of the desert brown colors that GW used to make, and there are traces of burnt umber.

I use the paint mixed with sand to do bases and to make terrain. its great for use to texture the sides of concrete walls.

How did that game go?

awsome death guard keep it up

@ eldartau1987 ~ the game was a massacre. End of round 4 i had one guy left. My foe tailored his army to face me and had a unit of those Tzneech flamers. They roasted my army. So incredibly powerful its rediculous.

@ Kencotter ~ Thanks. Its a really fun project, one that has been eating up my time lately. Thanks for stopping by.

@sennacherib - no problem man i know your predicament im in uni and also working, whle trying to paint a skaven hoarde army up, im also starting pre herasy death gaurd at christmas aswell

@ Kencotter ~ Dude, your skaven army looks bomb. I love skaven bits and have incorporated a bunch in my army. Bells and the like. Love to see your pre-herasy DG stuff though. Good luck gettin a head start on it over winter break (or do you all get a winter break from the uni there in the mother country?)

Oh Noah, those plague zombies are looking sweet, I cant wait to see some paint on them!

Chris, Stephen and I just started playing Necromunda a couple weeks ago...and I've started to scratch build some terrain for it! I started my first Dakka project blog to track my progress.

When are you coming down for another visit? I would love to get a game of 40k in...

I wont be coming down south for a bit. Dealing with the out of school, finding a job blues.
Good to hear that you are still staying involved. Your necromunda terrain looks like its coming along. I found that i am gettin more done when i have less distractions. I was working on a whole ton of stuff but now that i have all but given up being a loyalist, i am finding that since all my energies are focussed on the whole chaos thing, I get stuff done. Been thinking about you and yours lately. Hope your christmas season is awesome. Talk to you sometime soon.

So for my next sculpting project i am going to work on a unit or two comprising of 3 Hooktors. Nurgle slaughter demons. I am going to run them as spawn with the mark of nurgle. Whats not to like about cheap T6 beasts.

Also thinking i might need to model up a unit of Havoks,
We shall see.

@ sennacherib thanks dude wish i hadnt decided to paint so many some times hahaha

in other news i was so inspired by your stuff i gave in and made a start on the pre-heresy stuff check it out

http://www.dakkadakka.com/dakkaforum/posts/list/0/494348.page#5071580

@kencotter.
Just checked out your blog. I'm gonna have to keep track of that. Its all looking really good. If your curious about how i did anything, just ask and i will lend whatever advice i can.

@sennacherib thanks a lot dude i will ask away when the time comes and im posting a pick of my first painted pre-heresy death guard now lol

Wow. That is a stunning board! I like the lighter color of earth that has been blown apart time after time. I also didn't miss the 'Nurgle' crater. Well done, sir! As always, excellent work all around (even the Plague Zombie you don't like... it's my favorite as well).

Thanks Skalk.
Its funny to me that the one that i dont like everyone else loves. Literally everyone loves that one. Oh well. while i look on it with a mix of disgust (and not fatherly love disgust) everyone else will be loving on the little bugger.

Hows life Skalk. I know right now you are likely dreaming of a day when you can get out and ride your bike. its probably gettin down to the near Zeros where you are. And BTW, your the first to ever notice and mention the nurgle crater. Bonus nurgle points to you sir.

i wanna see your monsters sennacherib post some pictures.

I actually thought about taking it out the other day since it hit a balmy 40 degrees but there's so much salt on the road I took the responsible route and modeled instead.

As far as hating the model everyone else loves, been there and never understood it. Try as I might, I can't see what everyone else sees and have no idea why the one that I thought was awesome didn't get any love at all.

I have been working on tons of new stuff. Pictures will follow but, just to tease yall, I will say that there are some corrupted Ultramarines vehicles I have been working on. Deathgaurd has had em for years so the paints wearing off. Also a quratet of oblits with the mark of nurgle, a bike squad with mark of nurgle, and some other misc bitz. ITs been a busy new year.

oh man that is busy, i look forward to see it on here.

Love the work sir.

Have to say, my favorite part is the custom work on the Deathguard Terminator Legs. EXTREMELY JEALOUS OVER HERE.

Keep it up!

@ Cormadepanda ~ you dont know the half of it amigo. I have been gettin into a whole mess o converting.
@Markillius08 ~ Thanks man. Those DG terminators were a fun step towards my current project. DG Obliterators.

So i have been dealing with my conversion ADD. So much to do and so many distractions. I have played the new dex enough now to say that i have noticed a few things about it in this edition. The cult troops are super spendy and you almost have to have some cultists to bulk the force up with. Typhus allows for the awesome, fearless plague zombie of doom. NICE. So i am still working on a unit of ten of those. I also found that hammer and anvil is a really tough mission for units without good transport. I.e. Chaos. We dont get those fancy fliers that everyone else gets like storm ravens etc. So its almost mandatory that we have all of our troops in rhinos, bear minimum. Thus the conversion began of a loyalist predator into a rhino. I am trying not to spend money on GW stuff since it is getting super spendy and since re-sale on a pred is not even enough to buy a new rhino kit, I converted up this ultramarines one. Also in the works are a bunch of nurgle bikes. They are cheap, tough and a great way to get to the other side of the board and cause some pain. Twin meltas anyone? I am also going to use them as a guard unit to sneak a lord with a black mace down field. Everyone has been putting it on a demon prince, which is all fine and dandy but its really expensive. And lets be real. All you have to do is cause 1 casualty for it to be effective. I think its a must have in elite lists so that you can deal with hordes more effectively. Finally, there are the oblits that I am making out of Black Reach terminators. Oblits are even better than before in this edition. The fact that they dont have to deal with the hull point issue and with the mark of nurgle they are pretty hard to insta-grib. Plus they make a great unit to attach to typhus and deepstrike in with (in theory).

i also am beginning a huge conversion project for my buddy Magnusthered. He has commissioned me to do a fortress of redemtion and then convert it into a fortress of corruption or some such. He plays Tzneetch ( I know you think you play undevided but all your guys are blue and have 1000 sons colors so.....) so I am going to convert over a loyalist fortress for him. its the first commission work i have ever done. And its a big project but i got some ideas.

All told i have to finish converting.
Fortress of redemtion.
10 plague zombies
6 nurgle bikes and a bike lord
4 oblits
DG rhino
Defiler

I also have to assemble
another defiler
Plague Hulk.

As always questions and comments are appreciated. stay tuned for pics of a finished oblit.

Good to see something churned out.

Looking forward to your take on the oblits. Bikes seem to be coming along very well.

@Moltar ~ Oblit number one is here.

SO i feel like my first oblit turned out more or less the way that I wanted him too. The Ogre gut plate fit perfectly on his chest after I had extended the torso. It was a bit of work ot both widen his chest and make him taller, but along with the extended shoulder pads and the lifts I put on his feet, he is significantly larger than a regular terminator. In fact, he might be a tad taller than a stock Oblit and just as wide. The only thing is hes not quite as girthy as the original oblits but I can live with that. The texas chainsaw massacre mask was touch and go but i am really happy with the way it looks. Cant wait to field him along with his bretheren.

Grunt. Apparently my photos got all mixed up. Sorry they are all upside down and topsy tervy. The effect of chaos even bleeds over into the real world, only this looks like the handiwork of Tzneech.

All day er day for that aerotech!

Yeah... I fail at uploading pics for my blog.
Started my newest big project for Magnusthered. He wants something where the conversion of a fortress of redemtion is not just some stuff tacked on and call it good. a complete overhaul is i believe what he wants. so heres the plan.

He and I had talked about just rebuilding the tower out of plasticard with lots of rivets, spikes and plates or maybe rescultping the angels on the sides into daemons. I am going to use a bit of both ideas. He still has plenty of time to ixnae this idea if he dosnt like it, but i already started to prune down the sides of the tower. I am going to build up a coffin like recess around the angels. The sides will have plates rivetted on with spikes coming through them at intervals, with loyalist corpses hanging here and there for good measure. I intend to use the balls from inside the britta filter to make lots of rivets (cause details like that make any conversion pop. There is also a big tube of marine epoxy putty that i plan to use to make the whole construct a bit more solid with. Magnusthered has a way about him that might result in a rough thrashing when he loads his car to go have a game. I also plan to resculpt the angels so that they have one of 4 demon faces. Bird, Dog, corpse and female. Probably this will be the hardest part.

Magnus~ if you want only one type of demon face sculpted better let me know.

I am then going to have ample chains dangling and chaos icons here and there along with banners of corruption to suitably chaosify the remains. In the pic below, the black spots are spikes faceing the viewer, the red scurving lines are chains, and the plank stickin off the top is to send loyalists to their doom from.

Questions and comments are welcome.

This-



...is the smartest most inspired creative and overall awesome idea I have seen since I started my Death Guard and wish so much that I had seen it 2 years ago.

I am 100% absolutely undoubtedly guaranteed going back to my Terminators and trying that. I've wanted gas maks for years. They were just a tiny bit of GS away.

If I could make the icon larger or come w/ audio, it would be a full-page and the *SMACK* would be heard all the way over at your neighbor's house.